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Elvira Lindo

Biography

Elvira Lindo (2010). Photo by Xavi Menós (Wikimedia Commons)

Elvira Lindo was born in 1962 and lived in Madrid (Spain) from the age of 12. Throughout the 1980s she worked as a radio journalist, presenter and scriptwriter in Madrid and in Málaga. In the mid-1990s, she took a break from her highly successful career as a scriptwriter for radio and TV to focus on her writing.

Her first literary works, the ‘Manolito Gafotas’ series of children’s books published in the 1990s, were a resounding success in Spain, and have since been translated into over 20 languages. Her children’s and young adults’ titles have also received several prizes, including the Premio Nacional de Literatura Infantil y Juvenil (1998) and the Cervantes Chico (1999).

Since the early 2000s, Lindo has published the novels Algo más inesperado que la muerte (2002), Una palabra tuya (2005), Lo que me queda por vivir (2010), and has also authored several film scripts, essay volumes and a book about New York, where she lives during part of the year. She is a regular contributor to Spanish daily El País and to various Spanish radio programmes.